A FATHER of two has been jailed after he was captured on CCTV footage taking €250,000 from an AIB employee who had been forced by tiger kidnappers to steal the cash from his workplace.

Ross Caffrey (26) was later stopped by gardai as the passenger in a Toyota Avensis and was found to have €21,000 on him.

The cash was in bundles of €50 notes and some of those bundles still bore the bank seal. Some of the bands surrounding the cash had the bank employee’s initials on them which allowed gardaí to trace it back to the robbery.

Caffrey later admitted to gardai that he knew it was “likely” that the money had been taken in a robbery. He said he was to receive €3,000 for collecting the cash.